Description
First Rain in Paradise is a book about falling. Gwyneth Lewiss highly inventive poems trace an interior landscape carved out by the trauma of childhood emotional abuse through subsequent chronic ill health and towards a hard-won resurrection.
These accounts of living in and emerging from the dark wrestle with the angel of language. Suffering does not preclude humour and may, in fact, require it, in poems written from the shadows but committed to the light. This work refuses to keep pain a secret. Shame is a lurking presence.
Gwyneth Lewis has won wide acclaim for her versatile and varied writing across genres, most notably in her award-winning poetry in both English and Welsh. This book shows a deepening of her technical, imaginative and intellectual resources which are challenged and exercised to the full. The poems map uneasy terrains with realism and most importantly with joy.
The bracing latest collection from Welsh poet Lewis traces an arc from the trauma of maternal abusethrough aftershocks of chronic illness, self-harm, and shameto recovery (I am found). Her lines both stun and revive, moving between Plathian imagery and disarming candor (Underneath, Im a bit of a sweetie). The collection radiates hard-won self-possession Readers will enjoy discovering this writer of extraordinary gifts. Publishers Weekly, starred review of First Rain in Paradise
Author: Gwyneth Lewis
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Published: 05/20/2025
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781780377339
Language: English
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